[World] China's Xi meets Japanese ruling party leader

China's Xi meets Japanese ruling party leader
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-01/25/c_132127229.htm
BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the New Komeito party Friday morning in Beijing.

'Leave immediately': Britons in Benghazi warned to get out due to 'specific and ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/leave-immediately-britons-told-to-get-out-of-benghazi-after-threat-from-alqaida-8465313.html
The Government has urged British nationals to leave Libya's second city, Benghazi, in response to a "specific threat to Westerners" from terror groups operating in North Africa.

Does David Cameron's Europe speech signal the end of Tory modernisation?
http://www.channel4.com/news/david-camerons-europe-speech-the-key-questions
There is another aspect of David Cameron's EU speech worthy of consideration. Peter Oborne yesterday mapped out with characteristic vigour why its long-term consequences could be terrible for the Conservative party.

Palestinians say they may have no choice but to take Israel to Hague court
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-say-no-choice-but-to-take-israel-to-hague-if-settlements-continue-1.496036
By Louis Charbonneau. UNITED NATIONS | Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:40pm EST. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Palestinians declared Wednesday that they will have no choice but to complain about Israel to the International Criminal Court if the Jewish state ...

Broken limbs, broken lives in northern Mali
http://www.euronews.com/2013/01/25/french-air-strikes-head-northwards-launch-attacks-near-gao/
Bamako, Mali (CNN) -- There's no shortage of harrowing details on life under Islamist militants in northern Mali. Public floggings for smoking a cigarette.

UN launches inquiry into drone killings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21176279
The UN is launching an inquiry into the impact on civilians of drone strikes and other targeted killings. There is a need for "accountability and reparation where things have gone badly wrong", the British lawyer heading the investigation told journalists.

US envoy: Assad's mother fled Syria
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4336910,00.html
Syrian President Bashar Assad's mother, Anisa Makhlouf, has fled Syria to the United Arab Emirates along with several other high-ranking regime officials due to the rebel advances toward Damascus, US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford told CNN.

No. 2 Leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen Is Killed
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/yemen-injured-in-us-drone-attack-al-qaeda-no-2-succumbs-to-wounds/317614-2.html
WASHINGTON - Said Ali al-Shihri, the second-ranking operative in Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen, died recently from wounds he received during a “counterterrorism operation” late last year, Yemen's government announced Thursday.

Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price found dead in Dublin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/24/old-bailey-bomber-dolours-price
Dolours Price, the IRA Old Bailey bomber who later became a bitter critic of Sinn Féin's peace strategy, has been found dead at her home in north Dublin.

Afghan police: Suicide bomber misses NATO, kills 5
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/international/25-Jan-2013/suicide-attack-on-nato-convoy-kills-5-civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan police say a suicide car bomber has killed five civilians and wounded another 25 in a botched attempt to hit a convoy of NATO supply trucks in eastern Afghanistan.